Hi Michel,
Sorry for the delay in responding. Bob is in Beijing without good mail access, and I have been out of the office the past couple of days for personal reasons.
At 02:21 PM 4/1/2003 -0800, Michel Py wrote:
What is this consensus about? I was hoping that the mailing list would be asked to express their opinions _after_ a text to deprecate site-local addressing had been submitted to the working group. In the current situation, this consensus if there is one would be good only to accept text as a working document. This document that still has to be seen then should go to WG last call.
The current call is to confirm the consensus of the room in SF that site-local addresses should be deprecated. Once the WG has consensus on a general plan of attack (deprecate site-local addresses, keep them for specific uses, etc.), we will update the documents (addressing architecture, scoped addressing architecture, etc.) to reflect that general direction. Yes, we will need to get group consensus on the documents when they are ready.
In SF, we also had general agreement (although no direct consensus call was made) to write a document that explained why site-locals were deprecated and how to achieve the benefits of site-locals (numbering for disconnected sites, access control, etc.) through different means that did not have the problems of site-local addressing.
Where is the doc to deprecate site-local addressing?
It will be written if there is IETF WG consensus to do the deprecation. I am not actually certain if site-locals will be officially deprecated in the separate document that I mentioned above, or through an update to the addressing architecture (since that would be on the standards track), but I'm also not sure that it matters, as both would be necessary.
Margaret
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